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BOOK OF EZRA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Ezra mean?
• BOOK OF EZRA (noun)
The noun BOOK OF EZRA has 1 sense:
1. an Old Testament book telling of a rabbi's efforts in the 5th century BC to reconstitute Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity
Familiarity information: BOOK OF EZRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Old Testament book telling of a rabbi's efforts in the 5th century BC to reconstitute Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Book of Ezra; Ezra
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Book of Ezra" is a part of...):
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)
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